My spouse was covering their eyes and guffawing at many of the ads. It’s been years since they’d sat through anything more than promotions for other shows. Definitely an experience.
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We were able to watch and record the ‘Special Presentation’ on CTV Sci-fi channel.
It did however make us watch every single ad, with a ‘skip is not available for this episode’ message.
There are no other windows for it showing before Thursday, but I am wondering if Bell will add it to ‘On Demand’ sneakily tomorrow.
Yup. It’s a help.
But everything new other than SNW is going away at the end of this month. It looks like Bell Media’s streaming licence is winding up and all the new stuff will be on Paramount+ in Canada rather than Crave.
@ValueSubstracted has confirmed with Bell Media that CTV Sci-fi Channel will continue to have everything - including Prodigy!
So, we’re sticking with linear for this.
And Bell Media knows it’s audience and is delivering a ‘Special Presentation’ to CTV Sci-fi Channel tonight so we’re golden.
Brilliant thank you! It’s showing in the schedule for 22:30 EDT.
Now if I can figure out how to get Bell Fibe to schedule a recording of a ‘Special Presentation’. (Or just brute force it.)
That will be coming in Lower Decks apparently.
We’ve got CTV Sci-fi channel which means our other Trek content won’t be vanishing in August.
Who knows, perhaps CTV will add it ‘On Demand’ early.
This is one of the rare times that I wish we had Star Trek on Paramount+ in Canada.
I guess we’ll just have to wait until Thursday.
Cronenberg!
I’m enthusiastic about seeing Kovich getting off HQ and joining the adventure.
I’m also very much hoping he’ll be staying on as a recurring character in Starfleet Academy.
Adding to the fun with TrekCore’s screencap-laden breakdown.
I defy folks here not to howl with laughter.
This made my afternoon.
You seem to be assuming that a direct to streaming movie was Paramount’s preference rather than a second option to go forward in the face of Michelle Yeoh’s scheduling limitations following her winning just about every major award in 2022 for her performance in Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.
The series buy was already decided but not announced due to the situation on Yeoh’s side. Kurtzman has basically salvaged the situation with a streaming movie. Hopefully, it will also get a limited IMAX air theatrical release too but there’s no word on that.
Lower Decks is very successful in fulfilling its role in attracting and retaining a new audience for the franchise.
Animated comedies are huge with the teen and younger adult demographics. Netflix is picking up and retaining a large youth audience with its array of original animated comedies. Lower Decks was Paramount+‘s only original offering that broke into this market in 2022z
Paramount appears to know exactly what it’s doing strategically with this crossover. There’s a significant demographic for whom Lower Decks is their ‘first contact’ with Star Trek. Many are branching out to the live action series but not all, and SNW is the live-action show they’re likely to try first.
Now, why Paramount went with such a strategically daft decision to write off Prodigy rather than work on a pathway between offerings is an open question.
My best bet is that it was the need to write the show off on the Nickelodeon side that’s driving the decision to write Prodigy off. Nickelodeon was supposed to be the original home of Prodigy, not Paramount+, but Nickelodeon’s free fall in linear children’s audience made that untenable. What I don’t get is why Paramount, isn’t fighting to hold onto its market share through its streamer.
Well, as it happens Crave customers in Canada have only until July 31st.
After that, it will only be available on the CTV Sci-fi channel - at least until its new Canadian streaming home is officially announced.